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A Wrexham man who thought he was grooming a 13-year-old New Zealand girl for sex was arrested after it turned out the person he was in contact with on the internet was an undercover policewoman.

Aaron James Brimfield had sent a picture of his manhood to the person he was in conversation with online.

The police officer in New Zealand tipped off North Wales officers, and Brimfield was arrested at the office of the taxi firm he worked at.

Brimfield, 26, had told the ‘girl’ he would travel out to New Zealand and meet her at a hotel for sex.

He had claimed to be a boy of 14 who could not go to school because he had been caught in a sex act with a girl.

He then told the ‘girl’ he was actually 18, and send photographs of himself and asked her if she would have sex with him.

He said he’d meet up with her when he travelled to New Zealand, and go to a hotel without the girl’s mum finding out.

He told her he loved her and asked what was the legal age of consent for people to marry without their parents’ permission in her country.

At Mold crown court today he admitted five charges of attempting to get a girl to engage in or watch sexual activity.

He had initially denied responsibility, but when the evidence was put to him he admitted in a second police interview that he was responsible for the messages and the photographs, which were sent between September and November last year.

Brimfield, of Brynteg Crescent in Brynteg, said that he had been stupid, claimed he did not want to have sex with her, and said he believed that she was older than 13, maybe 18.

He denied being sexually interested in her and said he was being ridiculous when he asked for a photograph of her underwear.

It had been “silly chat” he said, and denied that he would ever have left the UK.

Brimfield said that he did not have any sexual pleasure from the conversations on line and knew it was illegal to send a photograph of his manhood to a child.

Defending barrister John Hedgecoe stressed that his client was a young man of no previous convictions .

He handed in references on behalf of the defendant which showed a different side to him, he said.

He was jailed for eight months and ordered to register as a sex offender for seven years.

DC Nick Hawe of North Wales Police’s Cyber Crime Team said “I hope his sentence will reinforce our commitment to eradicate all forms of on-line child abuse.

“Brimfield believed he was engaged in an on-line conversation with a young girl and attempted to incite her into sexual activity.

“He was in fact communicating with law enforcement and his attempts were fortunately thwarted and he was brought to justice. His incarceration will hopefully serve as a warning to others.”